Ruggero Focardi was born in Firenze in 1864. A Florentine painter belonging to a family of sculptors, Ruggero Focardi made his debut at the age of seventeen at the Royal Academy in London with two engravings of a realist subject imbued with sentimentality, one of which was noticed by Telemaco Signorini. A friendship was born between the two and an exchange of relationships with the Macchiaiolo group that influenced the first production of Focardi characterized by the study from life of nature rendered with brilliant brushstrokes spread out in stain. Participation, at the beginning of the twentieth century, in the Alinari competition to illustrate the Divine Comedy, brought Focardi closer to the symbolist divisionism of Previati. The beg...